Media innovator Nyla Innuksuk presents her debut feature Slash/Back, a teen horror film, set in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, featuring local actors and a host of slithery aliens. Starring Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Wolf, Chelsea Prusky, Frankie Vincent-Wolfe and Nalajoss Ellsworth, the film centres around a group of pre-teen girls who fight off an alien invasion in the remote Arctic […]
Csenge Kolozsvari’s workshop brings together somatic practices (crawling side by side, drawing, moving with bags full of water, walking backwards, playing with breath, touching textures, voicing etc.) with the concept of the schiz, cut, or interval, following philosophers Deleuze and Guattari in their book Anti-Oedipus. The aim is to build practices that do not presuppose […]
Join us for our first Lunchtime seminar of the season Monday Oct 3rd 2022 with: Hemispheric Encounters Postdoctoral Scholar/Artist Juma Pariri (with Translation by Anna Agazzi) Monday Oct 3rd, 2022 12pm – 1pm In person at CFT 301, Centre for Film and Theatre. ACE, York University OR Online After registering, you will receive a […]
The Project The Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) and York University presents Streams ~ Nuit Blanche 2022 at York University, an evening of campus-wide exhibitions, art installations, and events featuring 34 artists and showcasing 18 projects located around the central core of York’s Keele Campus and surrounding the Harry Arthur Commons. Each artwork and […]
EXHIBITION SENSORIA: the Art & Science of Our Senses is a multi-site exhibition and symposium that bridges LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) in Gdansk, Poland and Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology at York University in Toronto, Canada. Held simultaneously in both locations, the exhibition and symposium will engage multi-sensory research that revitalizes […]
SYMPOSIUM SENSORIA: The Art and Science of Our Senses symposium presents keynote lectures, discussions and performances around the connective aesthetics of everyday sensing and the knowledge-creation potential of artists and scientists collaborations. Symposium Registration Link Running from Oct 4-5 (9am – 12noon EST), The symposium will feature keynote lectures by Ryszard Kluszcynski , Chris Salter […]
Screening, Q & A, and live performances by creator, Romeo Candido, and lead actor, Cyrena Fiel. Special performance from Alexis Estropia and Gregory Dy Sun (Filipino Student’s Association at York) Topline: Filipinx Diaspora and Sonic Aspirations in the City July 13, 2022 7-9 p.m. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto TICKETS More information: https://filipinext.ca/schedule
Curated by Dr. Marissa Largo, scholar of Asian diasporic contemporary art, X Marks the Spot takes the X in “Filipinx” as a theoretical and methodological intervention in curation. The X signals an intergenerational relationality – a sort of “call and response” – between recognized and rising practitioners working on Turtle Island that speaks to the […]
FilipiNEXT is a transdisciplinary workshop that engages in creative and generative discussions around Filipinx Studies emerging from the Canadian context. Bringing together scholars, artists, activists and community members from all over Canada, the workshop explores the following questions: What tensions, aspirations, and lines of inquiry can emerge when we think critically about the history and […]
A two-day symposium on protest, queer history in Canada and the archive.Indexing Resistance is an interdisciplinary two-day symposium at Lula Lounge with an accompanying month-long exhibition at the plumb. By reflecting on relationships between the visual, the scholarly, and preservation, Indexing Resistance presents papers and artwork exploring the diversity of resistance and protest in queer […]